I need a simple script to echo current date 600 times once every second redirect it to a text file and follow the file as it grows using a tail command.
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Jump to PostNeat! Do you want the date to be updated each time? In your code snippet, you run the 'date' command one time, so each entry will be the same date/time. Try something like this!
#!/bin/sh for i in $(seq 1 600); do date |tee -a outputfile sleep …
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